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It's always the things that you don't expect

that come along and bite you on the bum when you're a broadcaster.

I never realised until I became a presenter just how easy it was to mispronounce names.

Now usually that's because it's an unfamiliar pronunciation

but in the case of my guest on political thinking this week

it was because I misspoke his nickname

referring to the Chancellor not as spread sheetful

but as spread shitful.

A name he's warmly embraced.

There have been times when frankly I wouldn't have minded going around Westminster and Whitehall with a muck spreader

spraying a bit of the brown stuff.

At least I can get Jeremy Hunt's name right.

More from Philip Hammond in just a moment.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage

leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage.

That siren was not a warning that I'm going to mispronounce another name.

It was the sound heard at the beginning of an extraordinary event

that was missed by many this week.

A mass rally for the Brexit Party.

Thousands of supporters gathered at the NEC in Birmingham,

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